i'm scott mcfarlane. coming up, what impact is fatigue having on your morning commute?perating a car right now in a controlled environment on two hours' sleep. tonight the news4 i-team goes to blacksburg. virginia tech helps show us on their controlled cou impact fatigue is having on drivers. we also find out what local roads are impacted too. >> people aren't getting enough sleep during their, you know, normal workweek. there's also we believe a lot of undiagnosed sleep disorders that people are experiencing and that they're unaware of. >> also in our report tonight, what role the earlier and earlier rush hour in maryland and virginia is having on our local drive all that tonight on news4 at 11:00. in blacksburg, scott mcfarlane, news4. >> that report is coming up tonight on news4 at 11:00. >>> competition begins today for more than 500 athletes from 14 different countries. we'll have more on the events drawing the attention of england's prince harry and first lady michelle obama. >>> and our sunny skies sure didn't last long, did they. storm team 4 is tracking more ra

scott mcfarlane, news 4 i-team. >> incredible.ay in addition to pulling over and grabbing a nap there are other things you can do if you're feeling drowsy. visit our nbc washington app and click on investigations to get more advice. there you can also send the i-team a tip if you have one that you think we ought to check out. >> what an eye opening report. >> amazing. >>> it could be the key to looking younger. >> speaking of eye opening, after the break the before and after pictures that could make >>> all right. now more rain is moving into our area. already drenched by record rain out there. >> tom kierein is here now bringing us up to date. 14 days now, we lost track. >> today is number 14. it's really rare. last time it happened was 1968. so this is very unusual. so as we go forward though we're looking at a drying pattern here just in time for the weekend. between now and then though we have a little bit of light rain -- well, into every life a little rain must fall. >> true. how we deal with it, right, tom? >> yes. it makes

scott mcfarlane shows us why some say the hill isn't nearly as family friendly as it ought to be. >>orter: by autumn 2-year-old shaw miller will be a big brother. mom is expecting, shae miller is a 13-year congressional staffer and still remembers what it was like making the long walk from her car to the office when she was pregnant with shaw. >> i think about when i was pregnant the first time coming, parking in the garage and then literally 15 minutes of waddling to my office. >> reporter: from your spot? >> from my spot to my office. >> reporter: that's because there are no designated parking spots in the capitol hill complex for expected moms. in a report issued in mid-may a u.s. house subcommittee made would support efforts to provide temporary parking for pregnant women, even though the federal government doesn't require such parking at federal buildings. something else in this report caught the attention of the news 4 i-team as well since the subcommittee also thinks it's priority for the capitol complex to add more baby changing stations inside the dozens and dozens of restro

for now, scott mcfarlane, news 4 i-team. >>> well, we already have lots of stories about the upcomingmpics on our website including a look at how synchronized swimmers are getting ready. >> we're counting down to rio and the athletes are as well. last night the nation's capitol swim club honored swimmers hoping to make the u.s. olympic team and the seniors graduating. we talked to a lot of people including gold medalist katie ledecky. >> sort of be in that position where i can make an impact on younger swimmers or not even swimmers but other people in the >> such a great role model. she is from bethesda and already holds multiple swimming world records including that gold medal. and she said this year because four years have passed she is going in much more prepared. she has a lot more expectations. four years ago she went in kind of unexpected to have a gold medal. >> she wins every race she goes into. >> amazing. nice person too. >>> well, bebe is taking a big step today. the new training the >>> now to everyone's favorite panda cubs. >> certainly mine. this week bebe will begin tra

scott mcfarlane, i-team. >> have you seen something at your work place the t click on investigation on our app. >>> this was a time when most kids who went off to college never moved back home. now a growing population are moving back in with mom and dad. according to the pew research center for the first time on record living with parents is the most common arrangement for millennials, those a aged 18 to 34. the study points to several reasons including falling wages, student debt an young adults postponing marriage. >>> if you plan to leave town for the holiday weekend and thought you would beat the traffic by leaving on thursday, think again. >> thursday may be worse than friday, folks. the council of governments transportation planning board looked at the last several memorial day weekends in the washington area and found thursday afternoon rush saw much more traffic than anytime on friday. on average it took people 50 to 100% longer to get to their destinations. if and be safe until about 11:00 a.m. on friday. >> i guess it picks up again, or you can leave tomorrow. it will be spe

we're going to continue to dig through that report back home, meanwhile news 4 scott mcfarlane has been tweeting about that over the last hour. we'll have more first at 4:00. >>> good morning. right now we've got just a few clouds building around the region. and it's sort of a tropical looking sky. we do have some of the tropical humidity from remnants of bonnie that's been lurking off the carolina coast last couple days. that's a live view overlooking reston town center. don't have any temperatures are getting rather muggy now, up around 80 degrees. reagan national now at 79. shenandoah valley where they had some fog this morning, that's all gone now in the mid 70s. storm team 4 radar scanning the sky, we don't have any rain anywhere in the vicinity, but later this afternoon we could get an isolated storm. a look at that and our storm chances for the rest of the week and the weekend, that's coming up in just a few minutes. >>> tom, thank you. prince george's county police say the woman killed in an apartment laundry room is 29-year-old ashley solano. they don't believe her death was ra